Cotton-planter



(No Model.)

J.M.TER RY. COTTON PLAN'I'ER.

N0. 466,839. Patented'Jan. 12 1892.

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JOHN M. TERRY, OF FAIRVIElV, SOUTH CAROLINA.

COTTON-PLANTER.

33PEGIFIGA'IION forming part of Letters Patent N0.466,839, dated January12, 1892.

Application filed October 26,1891. Serial No. 409,871. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN M. TERRY, a citi zen of the United States,residing at Fairview, in the county of Greenville and State of SouthCarolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCotton-Planters; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to an improvement in cotton-planters, andthe novelty will be fully understood from the following description andclaims when taken in connection with the annexed drawings, in which--Figure 1 is a partial perspective view of my improved planter. Fig. 2 isa plan View of the same, and Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-sectional viewtaken in the plane indicated by the dotted line a: a: of Fig. 2.

Referring by letter to said drawings, A indicates the main frame, whichis mainly of the ordinary construction, having a clevishook Ct at itsforward end for the attachment of a draft. This frame is provided in itsforward pontion with a vertical opening Z), in which is journaled thevertically-disposed operating-wheel B. This wheel, which carries an axlec, is journaled in suitable bearingblocks cl, secured to the underopposite sides of the opening in the main frame, and fixed to the shaftof said wheel is a sprocket-wheel 0, over which a sprocket-chain passes,as will be presently described.

D indicates a furrow-opener, which may be of the ordinary constructionand secured in a depending manner and adj ustably by means of a wedge 6through an opening in the forward portion of the main frame.

E indicates the hopper. This hopper is mounted upon the upper side ofthe rearportion of the frame and above alongitudinallyv disposedseed-slot f. Journaled transversely within the hopper is a shaft F, andfixed to this shaft so as to move in the seed-slot is a dropping-wheelg, which is provided with teeth and may be of saw-tooth or serratedform. This shaft F has also fixed to it near one end a sprocket-wheel G,over which a sprocket-chain H, which leads from the wheel 0, passes. Thebottom of the hopper, at a point beneath the sprocket-wheel G, isslotted, as shown at g, for the passage of the sprocketchain into thehopper, and the front wall of the hopper has an opening it near itslower end for the outlet of said chain.

I indicates a shield or housing. This housing is composed of an angularpiece of sheet metal or other suitable material having an opening h forthe passage of the shaft F and is designed to inclose the sprocket-chainG and that portion of the chain which travels within the hopper.

J indicates a stirrup or loop of metal preferably composed of stoutsheet-iron or hoopiron. This stirrup is designed to serve the twofoldfunction of securing the hopper to the main frame and supporting andstaying the covering points or shovels in their vertical movements. Thisstirrup is secured midway of its length to the underside of the mainframe, after which the horizontal portions are carried laterally inopposite directions, as shown at *6, and thence upwardly oblique, asshown at K, so as to form the loops L, and the branches are thencecarried vertically and secured to the opposite side walls of the hopper,as shown, and terminate in short inwardly-directed branches m, whichoverlap the upper edges of the side walls of said hopper.

M indicates the covering-shovels, there be ing one arranged at the rearend on the op posite sides of the main frame, so as to pro jectrearwardly therefrom. These shovels may be composed of a single bar ofsuitable material, having their horizontal branches a passing throughthe loops L of their stirrup and their forward ends pivoted to the mainframe, as shown at N. These covering points or shovels are connected inrear of the hopper by a cross-round P and will be found convenient forthe operator to place his foot upon when it is desired to depress saidpoints. The handles Q, are secured at their lower ends to the oppositesides of the main frame, as shown, and are connected at a suitable pointby a crossbar R, which is in turn secured to the upwardly-projected endS of the rear wall of the hopper by a screw Tor other suitable fasteningdevice.

\Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The cotton-planter described, comprising the main frame having its rearend provided with a seed-slot and also a slot for the passage of thesprocket-chain, and its forward portion provided with a slot to receivethe operating-wheel, the operating-wheel journaled therein, thesprocket-wheel rotatable with said operating-wheel, the feed-Wheelsecured on a shaft in the hopper, a sprocket wheel secured to saidshaft, the housing in the hopper for said wheel and sprocket-chain, thechain connecting the wheel in the hopper with the sprocket-wheel on theoperatingshaft, the covering points or shovels pivoted to the rear sidesof the main frame and the stirrups having the loops L for the receptionof the covering-shovels, said stirrups being secured to the main frameand also secured to the hopper with the ends overlapping the oppositeside edges thereof, and the handles secured to the hopper of the mainframe, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN M. TERRY. \Vitnesses:

A. J. MOSELEY; G. G. WELLS.

